Azerbaijan’s Criminal Code (1999), in a provision entitled “Negligence or giving criminal orders in time of armed conflict”, provides:

Wilfully giving a criminal order or instruction directed to the commission of the crimes considered in Articles 115–116 of this Code [“violations of [the] laws and customs of war” and “violations of the norms of international humanitarian law in time of armed conflict”] or declaring that no quarter will be given to the subordinate persons … will be punished.